OSU Medical Centers places performance info on its website

The Ohio State University Medical Center has placed its death rates, response times, and other performance information on its website. (Source: "OSU hospital stats online," Columbus Dispatch, March 25, 2008.) The hospital is the first in the Columbus area to post this information online, although the other major hospital systems said they plan to do the same in the coming months. In the last year lawmakers have been pushing nonprofit hospitals to include more of this information on their websites. The Federal government also provides access to hospital-specific performance information here.